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As the Louisiana Territory was not part of the United States in , they argued that introducing slavery into Missouri would thwart the egalitarian intent of the Founders. Proslavery Republicans countered that the Constitution had long been interpreted as having relinquished any claim to restricting slavery in the states. The free inhabitants of Missouri in the territorial phase or during statehood had the right to establish or disestablish slavery without interference from the federal government.
As to the Northwest Ordinance, southerners denied that it could serve as a lawful antecedent for the territories of the Louisiana Purchase, as the ordinance had been issued under the Articles of Confederation , rather than the US Constitution. As a legal precedent, they offered the treaty acquiring the Louisiana lands in , a document that included a provision, Article 3, which extended the rights of US citizens to all inhabitants of the new territory, including the protection of property in slaves.
In doing so, he set a constitutional precedent that would serve to rationalize Tallmadge's federally-imposed slavery restrictions. The 15th Congress had debates that focused on constitutional questions but largely avoided the moral dimensions raised by the topic of slavery. That the unmentionable subject had been raised publicly was deeply offensive to southern representatives and violated the long-time sectional understanding between legislators from free states and slave states.
Missouri statehood confronted southern Jeffersonians with the prospect of applying the egalitarian principles espoused by the Revolutionary generation.
That would require halting the spread of slavery westward and confine the institution to where it already existed. Faced with a population of 1. Slaveholders in the 16th Congress, in an effort to come to grips with that paradox, resorted to a theory that called for extending slavery geographically so as to encourage its decline, which they called "diffusion". On February 16, , the House Committee of the Whole voted to link Tallmadge's provisions with the Missouri statehood legislation by 79— The debates in the House's 2nd session in lasted only three days.
They have been characterized as "rancorous", "fiery", "bitter", "blistering", "furious" and "bloodthirsty". You have kindled a fire which all the waters of the ocean cannot put out, which seas of blood can only extinguish.
If a dissolution of the Union must take place, let it be so! If civil war, which gentlemen so much threaten, must come, I can only say, let it come! Representatives from the North outnumbered those from the South in House membership to When each of the restrictionist provisions was put to the vote, they passed along sectional lines: 87 to 76 for prohibition on further slave migration into Missouri and 82 to 78 for emancipating the offspring of slaves at The enabling bill was passed to the Senate, and both parts of it were rejected: 22—16 against the restriction of new slaves in Missouri supported by five northerners, two of whom were the proslavery legislators from the free state of Illinois and 31—7 against the gradual emancipation for slave children born after statehood.
The Missouri Compromise debates stirred suspicions by slavery interests that the underlying purpose of the Tallmadge Amendments had little to do with opposition to the expansion of slavery. The accusation was first leveled in the House by the Republican anti-restrictionist John Holmes from the District of Maine. He suggested that Senator Rufus King's "warm" support for the Tallmadge Amendment concealed a conspiracy to organize a new antislavery party in the North, which would be composed of old Federalists in combination with disaffected antislavery Republicans.
The fact that King in the Senate and Tallmadge and Tyler in the House, all New Yorkers, were among the vanguard for restriction on slavery in Missouri lent credibility to those charges. When King was re-elected to the US Senate in January , during the 16th Congress debates and with bipartisan support, suspicions deepened and persisted throughout the crisis. Jefferson, at first unperturbed by the Missouri question, soon became convinced that a northern conspiracy was afoot, with Federalists and crypto-Federalists posing as Republicans and using Missouri statehood as a pretext.
The disarray of the Republican ascendancy brought about by amalgamation made fears abound in Southerners that a Free State Party might take shape if Congress failed to reach an understanding over Missouri and slavery and possibly threaten southern pre-eminence.
Secretary of State John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts surmised that the political configuration for just such a sectional party already existed. There was no basis, however, for the charge that Federalists had directed Tallmadge in his antislavery measures, and there was nothing to indicate that a New York-based King-Clinton alliance sought to erect an antislavery party on the ruins of the Republican Party.
The allegations by Southern interests for slavery of a "plot" or that of "consolidation" as a threat to the Union misapprehended the forces at work in the Missouri crisis. The core of the opposition to slavery in the Louisiana Purchase was informed by Jeffersonian egalitarian principles, not a Federalist resurgence. Because it no longer wanted to be part of non-contiguous Massachusetts after the War of , the northern region of Massachusetts , the District of Maine , sought and ultimately gained admission into the United States as a free state to become the separate state of Maine.
That occurred only as a result of a compromise involving slavery in Missouri and in the federal territories of the American West. The admission of another slave state would increase southern power when northern politicians had already begun to regret the Constitution's Three-Fifths Compromise. Although more than 60 percent of white Americans lived in the North, northern representatives held only a slim majority of congressional seats by The additional political representation allotted to the South as a result of the Three-Fifths Compromise gave southerners more seats in the House of Representatives than they would have had if the number was based on the free population alone.
Moreover, since each state had two Senate seats, Missouri's admission as a slave state would result in more southern than northern senators. James Tallmadge of New York offered the Tallmadge Amendment , which forbade further introduction of slaves into Missouri and mandated that all children of slave parents born in the state after its admission to be free at the age of The committee adopted the measure and incorporated it into the bill as finally passed on February 17, , by the House.
The Senate refused to concur with the amendment, and the whole measure was lost. During the following session — , the House passed a similar bill with an amendment, introduced on January 26, , by John W. Taylor of New York , allowing Missouri into the union as a slave state. The question had been complicated by the admission in December of Alabama , a slave state , which made the number of slave and free states equal. In addition, there was a bill in passage through the House January 3, to admit Maine as a free state.
The Senate decided to connect the two measures. It passed a bill for the admission of Maine with an amendment enabling the people of Missouri to form a state constitution. Before the bill was returned to the House, a second amendment was adopted, on the motion of Jesse B.
The vote in the Senate was for the compromise. The amendment and the bill passed in the Senate on February 17 and February 18, The House then approved the Senate compromise amendment, 90—87, with all of the opposition coming from representatives from the free states. The two houses were at odds on the issue of the legality of slavery but also on the parliamentary question of the inclusion of Maine and Missouri in the same bill. The committee recommended the enactment of two laws, one for the admission of Maine and the other an enabling act for Missouri.
It also recommended having no restrictions on slavery but keeping the Thomas Amendment. Both houses agreed, and the measures were passed on March 5, , and signed by President James Monroe on March 6. The question of the final admission of Missouri came up during the session of — The struggle was revived over a clause in Missouri's new constitution, written in , which required the exclusion of "free negroes and mulattoes" from the state.
The influence of Kentucky Senator Henry Clay , known as "The Great Compromiser", an act of admission was finally passed if the exclusionary clause of the Missouri constitution should "never be construed to authorize the passage of any law" impairing the privileges and immunities of any U.
That deliberately ambiguous provision is sometimes known as the Second Missouri Compromise. For decades afterward, Americans hailed the agreement as an essential compromise, almost on the sacred level of the Constitution itself. The disputes involved the competition between the southern and northern states for power in Congress and control over future territories. There were also the same factions emerging, as the Democratic-Republican Party began to lose its coherence.
In an April 22 letter to John Holmes , Thomas Jefferson wrote that the division of the country created by the Compromise Line would eventually lead to the destruction of the Union: [98]. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
The debate over the admission of Missouri also raised the issue of sectional balance, as the country was equally divided between slave states and free states, with eleven each. To admit Missouri as a slave state would tip the balance in the Senate, which is made up of two senators per state, in favor of the slave states. That made northern states want Maine admitted as a free state.
Maine was admitted in , [] and Missouri in , [] The trend of admitting a new free or slave state to balance the status of previous ones would continue up until The next state to be admitted would be Arkansas slave state in , quickly followed by Michigan free state in In , two slave states Texas and Florida were admitted, which was countered by the free states of Iowa and Wisconsin in and From the constitutional standpoint, the Missouri Compromise was important as the example of congressional exclusion of slavery from US territory acquired since the Northwest Ordinance.
Nevertheless, the Compromise was deeply disappointing to blacks in both the North and the South, as it stopped the Southern progression of gradual emancipation at Missouri's southern border, and it legitimized slavery as a southern institution.
Douglas 's Kansas—Nebraska Act of The repeal of the Compromise caused outrage in the North and sparked the return to politics of Abraham Lincoln , [] who criticized slavery and excoriated Douglas's act in his " Peoria Speech " October 16, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. End of Atlantic slave trade Panic of Trial of Reuben Crandall Commonwealth v. Aves The Amistad affair Prigg v. Sandford Virginia v.
John Brown. Cobb of Georgia. Journal of American History. It maintained its identity in relation to the opposition by moderate and pragmatic advocacy of strict construction of the Constitution. Because it had competition, it could maintain discipline. It responded to its constituent elements because it depended on them for support. But eventually, its very success was its undoing. After , stirred by the nationalism of the postwar era, and with the Federals in decline, the Republicans took up Federalist positions on a number of the great public issues of the day, sweeping all before then as they did.
The Federalists gave up the ghost. In the "Era of Good Feelings" that followed, everybody began to call himself a Republican, and a new theory of party amalgamation preached the doctrine that party division was bad and that a one-party system best served the national interest.
Only gradually did it become apparent that in victory, the Republican's party had lost its identity, and its usefulness. As the party of the whole nation, it ceased to be responsive to any particular elements in its constituency. It ceased to be responsive to the North When it did [become unresponsive], and because it did, it invited the Missouri crisis of — It ceased to be responsive to the South.
It underlay the Constitution and its creation of a government of limited powers In that sense, his worries proved to be warranted. The entire congressional debate of — over the Missouri Question turned on the question of federal versus state sovereignty, essentially a constitutional conflict in which Jefferson's long-standing opposition to federal power was clear and unequivocal, the Louisiana Purchase being the one exception that was now coming back to haunt him.
But just as the constitutional character of the congressional debate served only to mask the deeper moral and ideological issues at stake, Jefferson's own sense of regret at his complicity in providing the constitutional precedent for the Tallmadge amendment merely scratched that surface of his despair. National Park Service. Retrieved July 3, Several thousand planters took their slaves in the area All were in for a shock. The Tallmadge amendment of , therefore, must also be considered the first serious challenge to the extension of slavery.
The year before, he had objected to the admission of Illinois on the well-founded grounds that its constitution did not provide enough assurance that the Northwest Ordinance prohibition on slavery would be perpetuated. He was known as a political odd duck.
Nominally an ally and kin, by marriage, of De Witt Clinton, who nonetheless distrusted him, Tallmadge was disliked by the surviving New York Federalists, who detested his defense of General Andrew Jackson against attacks on Jackson's military command in East Florida. January 23, Adirondack Almanack. Retrieved August 2, It began with congressional conflicts over slavery and related matter in the s.
It reached a crisis during the first great American debate about slavery in the nineteenth century, over the admission of Missouri to the Union. The story also offers historical paradoxes of its own, in which hardline slaveholding Southern Republicans rejected the egalitarian ideals of the slave-holder Jefferson while anti-slavery Northern Republicans upheld them—even as Jefferson himself supported slavery's expansion on purportedly antislavery grounds.
The Jeffersonian rupture over slavery drew upon ideas from the Revolutionary era. It began with congressional conflicts over slavery and related matters in the s. It underlay the Constitution and its creation of a government of limited powers, without which Southern participation would have been unthinkable. In part, the breakthrough of emancipation in the Middle States after —especially in New York, where James Tallmadge played a direct role—emboldened Northern antislavery opinion.
Southern slavery had spread since After the end of the War of , and thanks to new demand from the Lancashire mills, the effects of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, and the new profitability of upland cotton, slavery expanded into Alabama , Mississippi , and Louisiana. Between and , U. Slavery's revival weakened what had been, during the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary era, a widespread assumption in the South, although not in South Carolina and Georgia, that slavery was doomed.
By the early s, Southern liberal blandishments of the post-Revolutionary years had either fallen on the defensive or disappeared entirely.
This was that the institution of slavery should not be dealt with from outside the South. Whatever the merits of the institution—and Southerners violently disagreed about this, never more so than in the s—the presence of the slave was a fact too critical, too sensitive, too perilous to be dealt with by those not directly affected.
Slavery must remain a Southern question. Northern attacks on the institution were regarded as incitements to riot among the slave populations—deemed a dire threat to white southern security.
Tallmadge's amendments horrified Southern congressmen, the vast majority of whom were Jeffersonian Republicans. They claimed that whatever the rights and wrongs of slavery, Congress lacked the power to interfere with its expansion.
Southerners of all factions and both parties rallied to the proposition that slavery must remain a Southern question. Because the number of presidential electors assigned to each state was equal to the size of its congressional delegation The representation of any state in the lower house of Congress was based on the number of its free inhabitants, push three-fifths of its slaves.
The free states were now [] forging ahead in total population, were now had a definite majority. On the other hand, the delegation from the South was disproportionate to its free population, and the region actually had representation for its slave property. This situation vexed the Northerners, especially the New Englanders, who had suffered from political frustration since the Louisiana Purchase, and who especially resented the rule of the Virginia Dynasty. The issue, for King, at least in his early speeches on Missouri, was not chiefly moral.
King explicitly abjured wanting to benefit either slaves or free blacks. His goal, rather, was to ward off the political subjugation of the older northeastern states—and to protect what he called 'the common defense, the general welfare, and [the] wise administration of government. Tallmadge [remarked the trans-Mississippi region] 'had no claim to such unequal representation, unjust upon the other States.
Indeed, the congressional bulwark of what became known, rightly, as the Slave Power proved not to be the House, but the Senate, where the three-fifths rule made no difference. The House twice passed [in the 15th Congress] by substantial margins, antislavery resolutions proposed by [Tallmadge] with the largely Northern Republican majority founding its case on Jefferson's Declaration [of Independence] The antislavery effort would die in the Senate, where, again, the three-fifths clause made no difference.
In such power calculations, the composition of the Senate was of even greater moment than that of the House So the South looked to preserve its sectional equality in the Senate. The fact that the Founders had decided that each state, however large or small, would elect two senators meant the South's power in the Senate was disproportionate to its population, and that maintaining a senatorial parity between North and South depended on bringing in equal numbers of free and slave states.
Ammons, The main issue seemed simple enough, but the ramifications were not. Since , in a flurry of state admissions, the numbers of new slave and free states had been equal, leaving the balance of slave and free states nationwide and in the Senate equal. The balance was deceptive.
In , when Illinois gained admission to the Union, antislavery forces won a state constitution that formally barred slavery but included a fierce legal code that regulated free blacks and permitted the election of two Southern-born senators.
In practical terms, were Missouri admitted as a slave state, the Southern bloc in the Senate might enjoy a four-vote, not a two-vote majority. Earlier and more passionately than the Federalists, Republicans rooted their antislavery arguments, not in political expediency, but in egalitarian morality—the belief, as Fuller declared, that it was both 'the right and duty of Congress' to restrict the spread 'of the intolerable evil and the crying enormity of slavery.
If all men were created equal, as Jefferson said, then slaves, as men, were born free and, under any truly republican government, entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As the Constitution, in Article 4, section 4, made a republican government in the states a fundamental guarantee of the Union, the extension of slavery into areas where slavery did not exist in was not only immoral but unconstitutional.
For the debate represented a violation of the sectional understanding and the vow of silence He drew his conclusion from several circumstances Holmes, who wish to detach the Maine statehood from that of Missouri] was the first to suggest that the purpose behind the movement to restrict [slavery in] Missouri was a new alignment of parties.
New York, he hinted, was the center of this conspiracy; and he barely concealed his belief that Rufus King and [Governor] De Witt Clinton—a Federalist and many believed a crypto-Federalist—were its leaders. From then onward, the notion that a Federalist—Clintonian alliance was 'plotting' to build a new northern party out of the ruins of the Republican Ascendancy was never absent from the Missouri debates.
In one sense the consolidations were simply the old monarchists in slightly different guise Although most Northern Federalists backed restriction, they were hardly monolithic on the issue; indeed, in the first key vote on Tallmadge's amendments over Missouri, the proportion of Northern Republicans who backed restriction surpassed that of Northern Federalists.
They did not think in terms of a revival of Federalism, but rather of establishing a liaison with discontented Republicans which would offer them an opportunity to re-engage in political activity in some other form than a permanent minority. Federalist 'plots' and 'consolidation'], Monroe and other Southerners obscured the very real weight of antislavery sentiment involved in the restrictionist movement. Millard Fillmore: The 13th President, — Henry Holt. Style: MLA. Get Word of the Day daily email!
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